the whole Battalion — who had been brought into contact with him. Green was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry on two occasions (Gazetted 1 January 1919 and 2 April 1919). His second (Bar) MC was given a full citation in the London Gazette on 9 December 1919: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Sebourquiaux on 4 November 1918. During the advance he attended to the wounded, frequently under fire. He went forward and stayed for over an hour with a badly wounded signaller lying out in the open under shell fire, until the stretcher-bearers could fetch him away. Between March 1916 and February 1919 Green wrote one letter per month for publication in St Barnabas's parish magazine, detailing his experiences on the Western Front. These provide a vivid picture of the work of an Army Chaplain on the Western Front, in hospitals, in the trenches and on the battlefield. He used his parish letters to promote a "Fag-Mag" fund to buy cigarettes, magazines and other comforts for the troops in his unit. This endeavour earned him the nickname "the Heigham Woodbine Willie" among his parishioners. A selection of his war-time parish letters, The Happy Padre, was published in Norwich in 1929. A complete edition and biography, Somewhere in Flanders, was published in 2005. On leaving the Army Chaplains' Department in 1919 he was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces. He also did much work to support the British Legion. Post-First World War Green returned to his chaplaincy at St Barnabas in 1919 and continued his parish work there until 1921 when he was appointed rector of All Saints church, Mundesley, Norfolk, where he remained until his death, after a short illness, in 1929, aged 47. He was buried in Mundesley churchyard with full military honours provided by the British Legion and comrades from the 1/4th Londons. In 2005 a commemorative plaque recording Green's life and service was placed on the north wall of St Barnabas's Church, Heigham, Norfolk, alongside the parish's Great War Roll of Honour. In March 2014 BBC Radio Norfolk began to serialise The Rev. Green's war-time letters each week during its "Sunday Breakfast" religious programme as part of the BBC's 100th anniversary of the First World War commemorations. A 3-CD set of the broadcast readings, 'Dear People ...', has been produced by St Barnabas church in Norwich, see: http://www.stbarnabasnorwich.org/letters-cd/ References External links 1882